SFPD spiked at 195 in 2016, then similarly declined by almost half the next year. SFPD's current policy focuses on steering homeless people to shelters, rather than arresting them (which is basically giving the suspect a ticket and a court date). Honolulu In Honolulu, a sit-lie ordinance was signed into law in December 2014 by Mayor Kirk Caldwell. The initial ordinance applied to a number of pedestrian malls in the downtown and Chinatown neighborhoods and contains an exception for "people who are experiencing medical emergencies, engaged in expressive activity, working in maintenance or construction, or waiting in line unless their possessions impede the flow of pedestrian traffic." An extension to the sit-lie ban was vetoed later by Caldwell on May 21, 2015. One 2015 study by graduate students at the University of Hawaii Department of Urban and Regional Planning surveyed 70 homeless individuals. Of the 70 interviewed, 54% reported having identification documents confiscated by the state. This would require them to pay a $200 retrieval fee unless they were able to obtain a fee waiver. The study authors concluded that the ordinance had little effect on homelessness. In 2017, as part of a city campaign to clear city sidewalks of homeless encampments, Mayor Caldwell signed an expansion of the sit-lie ordinance to an additional 13 areas of Honolulu County (Oahu). See also Homeless Discrimination against the homeless Anti-homelessness legislation List of organizations opposing homelessness Hostile architecture Camden bench Homeless dumping Skid row Black triangle (badge) References External links Meet the proponents of sit / lie San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 29, 2010 Discrimination against the homeless United States public law Vagrancy laws